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Coal Creek War

Apr 1891 – Aug 1892 · 36.21° N, 84.12° W

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When
Apr 1891 – Aug 1892
Kind
Strike
Coordinates
36.21° N, 84.12° W
Description
labor uprising in Tennessee, United States

Coal Creek War

1890s labor uprising in Tennessee, United States

The Coal Creek War was an early 1890s armed labor uprising in the southeastern United States that took place primarily in Anderson County, Tennessee. This labor conflict ignited during 1891 when coal mine owners in the Coal Creek watershed began to remove and replace their company-employed, private coal miners then on the payroll with convict laborers leased out by the Tennessee state prison system.

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